William Morgan Sheppard

Come meet William Morgan Sheppard at this year’s Starbase Indy!

Sheppard was born in London, England to an Anglo-Irish family but was educated in Ireland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1956-58 before spending 12 years as Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared on Broadway in 1966 with Marat/Sade and later in 1975 with Sherlock Holmes. He won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for The Homecoming in 1995, at the Matrix Theatre. He is the father of actor Mark Sheppard.

He appeared in the new Star Trek Movie (2009) as the Vulcan Science Minister, played the Klingon Commander in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, Dr. Ira Graves on Star Trek: The Next Generation and the alien Qatai on Star Trek: Voyager. Outside of Star Trek he is probably best known for his roles as Blank Reg on Max Headroom and Confederate General Isaac Trimble in the films Gettysburg and Gods and Generals.

Sheppard also played the role of Captain Archibald Witwicky in the 2007 box office hit Transformers.

He has appeared in two roles on the sci-fi series Babylon 5 and the computer hologram for an A.I. program during the first and second season of seaQuest DSV.

He was also one of several Star Trek actors who voiced characters on the animated series Gargoyles, including playing the father of Jonathan Frakes's character David Xanatos and as the Norse god Odin.

He appeared in two notable episodes of MacGyver, as the incarcerated (and rather insane) serial killer "Dr. Zito" with other appearances on shows like Charmed, NCIS and Alias.

He appeared in the 1978 TV-film The Nativity. He starred alongside John Terry in the 1980 fantasy film Hawk the Slayer. He also appeared in the 1992 comedy film There Goes the Neighborhood. He narrated the introductions and mission briefings for the first three installments of the Medal of Honor video game series. He also read a passage from the poem Rendezvous, by Alan Seeger, in a commercial for Gears of War 2.

He appeared in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark as Elvira's Great-Uncle Vincent Talbot who was an evil warlock.

He will also do voice work for John Adams in the upcoming Wii game, The Conduit.

Mr. Sheppard will partake in a 60 minute Q & A and will be available for autographs.

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